It could be timing - just like they had 27% more applicants, well if they truly give each file the time it deserves, the likely didn’t have enough staff. It could be scholarships have a different criteria than admission - likely not - but could be. We really needed the full waiver and I thought it was “possible” until I saw the initial stats - they were just so outstanding and with so many more applicants. Obviously, I wish everyone well and hope that yours is coming soon. But that’s why we did 20 - to strengthen the odds. Florida State, for example, is a similar profile (ranked a bit lower but also crazy stats). Because Florida required the SAT/ACT this year - the only state - their schools (FSU, UCF, USF, etc) had apps down by a third and more - so that might be where we get the $ we need.
From a pure academic standpoint, your child definitely exceeded mine. And the Honors is awesome. No doubt - this was a “safety” school and I’m sure they’ll get into match schools and stretch schools if they applied. And perhaps this is just a sign that you’ll get invited to an interview weekend - and will actually get even more $ from UGA. Good luck and let us know how it ends up. My kid is nauseated by all this chatter…but I love it
“The Scholarship offers are initial offers to a small group of EA admitted students, and the Admissions Office will be making a number of additional offers through mid-April.”
~ David Graves Dec 3 blog (UGA Admissions Blog)
@tsbna44 Thank you, we’ll see what happens. She is interested in UGA but it’s a little further down the list from some others. She had trouble narrowing down the list (I think she wasn’t ready to ‘close doors’ on a lot of options yet), so she has submitted 10 and might do a couple more (her brothers were much more low key about the whole thing). If she knew how much time I spent reading everyone’s opinions on this forum she would probably be appalled Good luck with your Florida options!
This sounds like the admissions office is making (at least) the initial scholarship awards and the honors college makes the honors determinations. If two separate bodies are handling this it would make sense that there was not always correlation between scholarships and honors. Honors at this point seems very stats based while admission is more holistic so perhaps why the difference. My son has another essay to write also (although we weren’t expecting honors due to lower number of APs (not many offered at his school which also affects his UGA GPA)) . . . luckily it is a short one!
You are fortunate to be in Virginia and have such great and affordable in state options (go Hoos!). Turning down free tuition in Georgia is complicated by the OOS expense of other great state schools like UVA and UNC (although UVA is 15k more a year than UNC OOS!) who traditionally give little merit.
I loved UVA and know my sons would as well but the OSS tuition gives you sticker shock for sure!
This was actually confirmed on the admissions blog. David Graves said in the comments that the admissions office makes the scholarship offers and the honors office makes the honors offers and while overlapping they use different criteria. That was my guess give the number of kids who got one but not the other.
My daughter said she got an email regarding a scholarship. I had no idea they had scholarships, that’s so exciting. She is out of town, any idea of the types of awards, she said she will look when she gets back, ugh.
Interesting about Florida. My son has received a large scholarship from Alabama which may increase and notification that he will be receiving a scholarship from Clemson to be awarded later. He applied to Univ of Florida (wants to study business) and I was wondering if he might get merit there as well (he has a 35 ACT). I guess he will see in February!
This is late, but I was a little surprised not to get an Honors offer if y’all are saying that the top 10% of scorers/GPA get them. I am OOS, have a 4.0 unweighted (not sure UGA gpa but I have a good amount of APs) and a 36 ACT. Not complaining or trying to show off at all!!! I was just genuinely surprised based on what I have heard. Anyone else have this happen?
Maybe the 3rd criteria number of APs got you. Midrange is 8-13. Were you above that? Also were you above the UGA GPA? Unweighted 4.0 doesn’t mean much at UGA - it varies so much between schools they try to equalize it by calculating a UGA GPA. Test scores are the least important factor in admission. If you weren’t above 12 APs your UGA GPA may not have been above the mid range. Also remember only the APs that you have taken and received grades in thru junior year go into your UGA GPA. My rough calculations are that an unweighted 4.0 and 6 APs through junior year puts you at roughly a 4.3 assuming 5 core classes a year (they don’t count non core).
The APs in the graphic of admitted students are APs through senior year. In calculating the UGA GPA they only use APs actually taken through junior year. And just checked - midrange is 8-13. My admitted son had 2
@VirginiaBelle if your son is a NMF, the Benequisto will cover full COA for many of the FL schools (including UF, FSU). Just throwing that out there based on his high ACT score.
What is the cut off for honors? Does it matter if my daughter received a scholarship, but did not get honors? I heard if you are a Florida resident you can appeal to get instate tuition, because of BF and FPP, is that true?
Is there a way to get additional money sophomore year, for example if she gets straight A’s? This is all new for me, so sorry if i am asking repetitive questions.
Not sure about sophomore scholarships. Florida residents don’t get in state tuition at UGA because of Bright Futures. If your daughter did not get honors she can apply by February 1. Scholarships and honors are two different review processes by two different parts of the university so they do not always correlate.
Biggest advantage is priority registration. There is an honors dorm which many live in (not required) so instant community. Honors classes are generally smaller. The honors web page mentions others but those are the ones that I remember.
Good luck with your Florida options!